“It takes a village” was a line adopted by Hillary Clinton and the title of one of her many books. Conservatives hated it, because they read it as Nanny State Socialism.
The rebuttal was “It takes a family”, with a heavy emphasis on stripping aid and punishing “Welfare Queen” single-mothers, extended family, and other community-based welfare groups. Instead, starting with Reagan and really hitting a high water market with Bush Jr, the conservative focus was on “Faith Based Initiatives”, through which religious institutions could tap into federal and state money to provide services as a benefit of church membership. More radical conservative states also pushed for Covenant Marriage, which sought to contractually prohibit divorce. And then there was the fixation on anti-abortion measures, which conservatives believed would discourage casual sex and force more pregnant women into marriage contracts and church membership rolls.
I don’t really see any modern liberal still clinging to the Clinton-esque wording, precisely because the Alt-Right has done such an excellent job of demonizing the idea of community support for child care. The modern liberal politician is far more invested in “Abundance” as a panacea, wherein the government uses private subsidies and big public grants to AI research in order to create such vast surpluses that community involvement becomes unnecessary.
Just a note on the timeline. Reagan’s policies were already in full swing by the time Hillary wrote that book. The Clintons were political nobodies from Arkansas when Reagan was in office. Bill was governor, but can you name the governor of Arkansas today without looking it up? I’m guessing most people outside the state can’t.
Reagan’s policies were already in full swing by the time Hillary wrote that book.
Sure, he’d been in bed with the televangelicals for a while. The policy of welding public services to church institutions was an old one. The rhetoric that came out in response to Hillary’s '96 book came afterwards.
Bill was governor, but can you name the governor of Arkansas today without looking it up?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, last I checked. But that’s more because the Huckabees are a notoriously sleazy political dynasty who has been tight with the Trumps going back to the '16 primary.
“It takes a village” was a line adopted by Hillary Clinton and the title of one of her many books. Conservatives hated it, because they read it as Nanny State Socialism.
The rebuttal was “It takes a family”, with a heavy emphasis on stripping aid and punishing “Welfare Queen” single-mothers, extended family, and other community-based welfare groups. Instead, starting with Reagan and really hitting a high water market with Bush Jr, the conservative focus was on “Faith Based Initiatives”, through which religious institutions could tap into federal and state money to provide services as a benefit of church membership. More radical conservative states also pushed for Covenant Marriage, which sought to contractually prohibit divorce. And then there was the fixation on anti-abortion measures, which conservatives believed would discourage casual sex and force more pregnant women into marriage contracts and church membership rolls.
I don’t really see any modern liberal still clinging to the Clinton-esque wording, precisely because the Alt-Right has done such an excellent job of demonizing the idea of community support for child care. The modern liberal politician is far more invested in “Abundance” as a panacea, wherein the government uses private subsidies and big public grants to AI research in order to create such vast surpluses that community involvement becomes unnecessary.
Just a note on the timeline. Reagan’s policies were already in full swing by the time Hillary wrote that book. The Clintons were political nobodies from Arkansas when Reagan was in office. Bill was governor, but can you name the governor of Arkansas today without looking it up? I’m guessing most people outside the state can’t.
Sure, he’d been in bed with the televangelicals for a while. The policy of welding public services to church institutions was an old one. The rhetoric that came out in response to Hillary’s '96 book came afterwards.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, last I checked. But that’s more because the Huckabees are a notoriously sleazy political dynasty who has been tight with the Trumps going back to the '16 primary.